Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Although Pauline Hanson's One Nation party opposes the reduction of the voting age to 16, we do find ourselves to be in a position of agreeing with the Greens on one thing. We agree with Senator Di Natale, who says that young people are being screwed over—too right, they are. Look at energy prices right now; that's because of the Greens' policies. Look at housing prices; that's because of the Greens' policies. The Greens talk about carbon dioxide as a pollutant. It's a trace gas that's essential for all life on this planet. Everything green, except the Greens Party, depends upon carbon dioxide. That's why it's green; it's because of photosynthesis.

We have the Greens talking about a cyclone and hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere, an entirely natural event. But they're fabricating those events into being something unusual. So cyclone Irma comes across the Northern Hemisphere, and it's unusual and caused by us. We have had 10 hurricanes that have made landfall in the United States in the last 10 years. One hundred years ago, in the 1850s to 1860s, it was 27 hurricanes. That's three times as many as today. We see the Greens destroying coal and hydro, preventing the use of coal-fired power stations and hydro. That is destroying cheap energy. The Greens then talk about income inequality—